Monthly Archives: October 2006

Yesterday, during the 2nd round of elections, Bulgaria elected incumbent President Georgi Parvanov for his second term. This is the first time in the last 17 years (after the fall of socialism) when the incumbent wins re-election. Mr. Parvanov made … Continue reading →

Joi Ito was in Bulgaria in the last few days, and gave a number of speeches – one at the Sofia University, and two with the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). On the breakfast with the AmCham Board we had … Continue reading →

Joi Ito forwarded me a note from a visitor of his site. They point to a study on the impact of the new Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) on the web sites, which were designed for IE6. The results of the … Continue reading →

Between Oct. 29, 2006 and November 3, 2006, Athens hosts the first Internet Governance Forum. The forum is follow-up to the WSIS. More than 1000 people have registered, and perhaps all of them will come in the Greek capital. Since … Continue reading →

Bulgarian Agency for Information Technologies and Communications has announced a two-week public discussion period for the new Telecommunications Law. Its original name is “Law for electronic services”, and is in accordance with the latest European acquis in the field. The … Continue reading →

The Bulgarian Parliament accepted changes in the Tax Law, which will make the corporate tax rate only 10 % from January 1st, 2007, when Bulgaria joins the European Union. This makes Bulgaria with Cyprus have the lowest corporate tax rate … Continue reading →

Eudora users face a great decision by Qualcomm – Eudora goes open source from first half of 2007! You could read more at the official web site. Eudora is a great mailer program, and now that it goes open source, … Continue reading →

My colleague and very good friend Joi Ito is coming to Bulgaria. He will have a public lecture at the Sofia University on October 25th, at 5:30 p.m., at Auditorium 65. Here’s what the ICANN web site says about him: … Continue reading →

I was in Prague Sept. 24-26 for the ICANN Studienkreis conference. While the conference was in the usual great way Wolfgang Kleinwachter is organizing it, the impressions I got from Prague were quite negative. But let’s first talk about the … Continue reading →